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bug in markup parser for links ending in )

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MrXTLO

I just discovered that if I post a link with a trailing ) the trailing ) is cut from the link and displayed as regular text but when I used the labeled link it works

broken:
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivors_(2008_TV_series)

Working:
Survivors 2008 TV series

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Mully
[Survivors 2008 TV series](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivors_(2008_TV_series\))

:3

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MrXTLO

According to the RFC they are and they are in fairly common use by some major sites like Wikipedia.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt

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MrXTLO

Many people do recommend against them because they break many parsers so it's one of those cases where you should accept them properly but not send them.

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